Kryvoshein V. Political risk studies: conceptually-paradigmatic and praxeologically-scientific bases.

The dissertation deals with main structural components of political risk studies that define their scientific status: political risk studies are described as scientific method, created as a result of merging political science and risk studies, they present tendencies, principles and tools for determination, account, estimation of political risks and risk management. Political risk studies, as subdiscipline of political science, gain multiparadigmatic status. Substantive field of political risk studies consists of political risks, considered as activity carried out in political sphere and connected with overcoming uncertainty in inevitable choice situation, during which possibility of quantitative and qualitative probability estimation of achieving allowable result, failures and deviations from the goal. Structure of political risk studies consists of: political risk theory, political risk analysis, political risk management, political risk consulting.